The eloquent essay: an anthology of classic and creative nonfiction

A hanging / by George Orwell

The guilty vicarage / by W.H. Auden

Writing and analyzing a story / by Eudora Welty

The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / by Bruno Bettelheim

Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.

Georgia O'Keefe / by Joan Didion

The cowboy and his cow / by Edward Abbey

Huck at 100 / by Leo Marx

In praise of the humble comma / by Pico Iyer

When free speech was condemned : the trial of Socrates reconsidered / by I.F. Stone

Mother tongue / by Amy Tan

Becoming a doctor / by Lewis Thomas

How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life / by Barbara Kingsolver

Is hunting ethical? / by Ann S. Causey

The fine art of baloney detection / by Carl Sagan

Space is numeric / Ellen Ullman

Lying in the tall grasses, eating cane / Opal Palmer Adisa.